Strangely, my GCD700, which now resides at my father's house since I upgraded to a Theta Pearl, doesn't seem to do what you are talking about. If I put 5 disks in and hit "Random" and "Play", and then use the remote to keep jumping to the next track, it always changes which disk is in play. This unit was manufactured in Maylasia in 1996. (It does, however, suffer from the apparently common-to-the-model occasional drawer sqeakiness syndrome.)